Burns Joins Neural Propulsion Systems as Executive Adviser

Dr. Lawrence Burns is joining Neural Propulsion Systems (NPS), an autonomous sensing platform, as an executive adviser. He is the former corporate vice president of research, development and planning at General Motors. He has also advised numerous companies, including Google Self-Driving Cars/Waymo, for more than a decade.

In this position, Burns will advise and collaborate with the NPS executive team to globally scale the company and deliver the world’s first all-in-one multi-modal sensor system focused on fully autonomous driving (level 4 autonomy).

“Sensor Fusion technology is a core component of delivering true autonomous vehicles and is crucial to helping the industry achieve the vision of Zero Autonomous Driving Accidents,” said Dr. Behrooz Rezvani, founder and CEO of NPS. “Prominent technology and industry thought leaders like Larry will be instrumental in helping us make this vision a reality. Larry has helped shape the autonomous industry as we know it today. We share the conviction that only a reliable multi-modal sensor platform can deliver level L4 autonomy.”

Burns joins existing industry leaders and NPS executive advisers Hinrich J. Woebcken, most recently president and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America Inc., and retired vice admiral David Dunaway, who was commander of the Naval Air Systems Command.